Old photos of shipwreck off Libya falsely shared as 'Greece migrant boat disaster'Copyright © AFP 2017-2023. The pictures actually show the deadly sinking of an overcrowded migrant boat off the Libyan coast in May 2016. One photo, which shows an overcrowded boat tilting to one side, was posted on Twitter here on June 18, 2023. "At least seven migrants have drowned after the heavily overcrowded boat they were sailing on overturned, the Italian navy said. AFP published both pictures in its report about the disaster (archived link).

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Every migrant I speak to has friends who have died attempting the same journey. Some have also been following news on social media of the Greek disaster - one of the deadliest migrant sinkings in years, in which up to 750 people are believed to have died - which happened less than two weeks earlier. Those migrants had also set sail from Libya.

(@ChaudhryMAli88)Tunis, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 11th Jul, 2023 ) :Hundreds of migrants left stranded in harsh conditions on the Tunisia-Libya border after fleeing violence were moved on Monday, an NGO said, but fears remained for dozens of others forced towards Algeria. "All of the 500 to 700 migrants who were at the Libyan border have been transferred elsewhere," Salsabil Chellali of Human Rights Watch (HRW) in Tunis told AFP. "But many other people expelled near the Algerian border risk their lives if they are not rescued immediately," she added. About 30 migrants have been abandoned to fend for themselves in a desert area near the Algerian village of Douar El Ma, close to the Tunisian border, he said. The group called on the United States, European Union and individual European countries to provide urgent aid and condemn the "forced expulsions by the Tunisian security services".

Today, the Libyan High Council of states gave its “initial acceptance” to a roadmap proposal pertaining the implantation of elections laws. The council convened its 88th session during members discussed the proposal and approved it, but requested few amendments, according to a brief statement by the council.

Asylum claims lodged in Malta in 2022 were lower than in the previous year, despite a growing number of crossings through the treacherous Central Mediterranean route. Detections of boat migrants attempting the deadly route rose by over 50% to 106,000 in 2022, making it the second busiest route for asylum seekers into Europe. In a sign of the growing fatalities of the route, detections outnumbered asylum claims in Italy and Malta, the two countries along this route. While asylum claims lodged in Malta were lower than in the previous year – 444 sea arrivals compared to 832 – applications in Italy increased by over one-half in 2022. In 2022, Malta granted refugee status or subsidiary protection in just 6% of total decisions.

ch-aviation understands that even if confirmed, the decision would only apply to Italian airlines and subject to designation. All Libyan airlines were proscribed by the European Commission in 2014 on safety grounds and remain banned from any operations in the bloc's airspace, including overflights. As the EU Air Safety List takes precedence over any domestic legislation, EU member states cannot unilaterally reauthorise Libyan carriers. Greece and Malta are the only EU countries with direct scheduled flights to Libya. While Malta MedAir (MT, Malta International) operates to GNU-controlled Misurata and Tripoli Mitiga, Greece's Marathon Airlines (O8, Athens) flies to Benghazi, an eastern city under the control of rival Libyan National Army (LNA) forces.

By Euronews with APThirty-eight human traffickers were jailed by a Libyan court on Monday over the deaths of migrants heading to Europe on a rickety boat. A court in eastern Libya has sentenced 38 human traffickers over the deaths of 11 Europe-bound migrants at sea, according to the office of Libya’s chief prosecutor said on Monday. Another 24 human traffickers, part of a network smuggling migrants, were jailed for a year, the statement added. Human traffickers have benefited from the instability in Libya, smuggling migrants across borders from six nations, including Egypt, Algeria and Sudan. In March, UN-backed human rights experts said there was evidence that crimes against humanity had been committed against Libyans and migrants in Libya, including women being forced into sexual slavery.

Five people were sentenced to life in prison in Libya for the deaths of 11 migrants. The defendants were part of a network smuggling people from Libya to Europe, it said. The statement did not say when the 11 died at sea or provide further details. AFP Mahmud Turkia/AFPLibya descended into chaos following a NATO-backed uprising in 2011 that toppled and killed long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi. Human traffickers have benefited from the instability in Libya since, including the smuggling of people across borders from six nations, including Egypt, Algeria and Sudan.

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The fate of hundreds of migrants pushed into the Tunisia-Libya border region drew concern from international humanitarian groups and calls for action. Speaking to The Associated Press from the border zone last week, he described some 600 sub-Saharan migrants caught in the area between the Mediterranean and the Tunisian-Libyan land border near Ben Guerdane. Under pressure from humanitarian agencies, Tunisian President Kais Saied Sunday ordered the Tunisian Red Crescent to bring aid to the migrants. He said 195 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa registered on a Red Crescent list to be transferred back to Tunisia, and then to their countries of origin. The president of the Tunisian Human Rights Observatory, Mustapha Abdelkebir, said a total of 450 migrants blocked in the border zone were being gradually transferred to various regions of Tunisia.

Air travel between Libya and Italy will resume in September after a nearly decade-long suspension following an EU ban, the head of the Tripoli-based UN-backed government said on Sunday 9 July 2023. Flights between the two countries were halted in 2014 after the European Union blacklisted Libyan airlines and banned them from flying over European airspace. Malta is the only other European country to have resumed flights with Libya. ALSO READ: Libya UN special representative expresses concern over vote dealLIBYAN DIVISION? Since then, the North African country has been divided, with one administration based in Tripoli and the other in the east where it is backed by military strongman Khalifa Haftar.

TRIPOLI: A Libyan court has sentenced to prison 37 people convicted of human trafficking over migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, authorities said on Monday. The North African country is a key departure point for migrants, with many risking the perilous sea journey seeking a better life in Europe. The appeals court in Al-Bayda, some 800-km east of the capital Tripoli, pronounced the verdict against a “criminal gang” whose members organised for migrants to travel on a “dilapidated boat, resulting in the death of 11 of them”, according to statement from the prosecution. The prosecutor´s office, which did not specify the identities or nationalities of the convicted traffickers, said five of them were sentenced to life in jail and nine others to 15 years.

Emmanuel Addeh in AbujaLibya’s revenues from crude oil in the first half of the year fell to $6.95 billion (33.4 billion Libyan dinars)—down from 37.3 billion dinars in H1 2022, according to a statement from Libya’s central bank. Libya’s crude oil production in the first part of this year is higher than it was during the same period last year. In Q1 2023, Libya’s crude oil production averaged 1.157 million bpd, according to OPEC’s secondary sources, rising only slightly to average 1.169 million bpd by May of this year. This is an increase on 2022, when 1st quarter production averaged 1.063 million bpd, with May 2022 production averaging just .707 million bpd, oil price reported. But Brent crude oil prices are down nearly $30 per barrel from May 2022 to May 2023.

New York: The leader of a US think tank has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent of China, as well as seeking to broker the sale of weapons and Iranian oil, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday. Gal Luft, a citizen of the United States and Israel, is accused of recruiting and paying a former high-ranking US government official on behalf of principals based in China in 2016, without registering as a foreign agent as required by law. Gal Luft is accused of recruiting and paying a former high-ranking US government official on behalf of principals based in China in 2016. Credit: C-SpanProsecutors did not identify the former official, but said he was working as an adviser to the then president-elect Donald Trump at the time. Luft is accused of pushing the adviser to support policies favourable to China, including by drafting comments in the adviser’s name published in a Chinese newspaper. A Twitter account bearing Luft’s name, with more than 15,000 followers, said in a February 18 tweet that he had been arrested in Cyprus “on a politically motivated extradition request by the US.”